“Feds seek extra redactions in drone memo”: Josh Gerstein of Poliico.com has a blog post that begins, “The Justice Department plans to ask a federal appeals court to delete additional material from a drone-related legal opinion before it’s made public — redactions that would go beyond those the court approved last month, a government lawyer said in a legal filing Tuesday night.”

“Appeals court slams Prenda Law’s mass-copyright lawsuit strategy; Judges like EFF’s BitTorrent-blackjack analogy, disallow ‘joinder’ of 1,000+ users”: Joe Mullin of Ars Technica has this report.

My earlier coverage of today’s D.C. Circuit ruling appears at this link.

“Lisa Heinzerling won’t back down”: Jeremy P. Jacobs of Greenwire has this report today.

“Obama administration asks top court to turn away Arab Bank case”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.

And Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight reports that “Justice Department sides with Madoff’s banks on SCOTUS review.”

“Caught in a TRAP: If an Alabama law and others like it stick, abortion clinics will disappear from swaths of the U.S. map.” Emily Bazelon has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“The Court’s Emphatic Ban on Executing the Intellectually Disabled: A divided court doubled down on its 2002 Atkins decision, ruling that Florida can’t kill Freddie Lee Hall just because his IQ has sometimes passed an arbitrary mark.” Andrew Cohen has this essay online at The Atlantic.

And online at Slate, Emily Bazelon has a jurisprudence essay titled “The Death Penalty Just Got a Tiny Bit Saner: Today’s Supreme Court decision makes it harder for states to execute the mentally disabled.”

In the June 2014 issue of ABA Journal magazine: Mark Walsh has an article headlined “SCOTUS ruling may enliven the debate over affirmative action.”

Lorelei Laird has an article headlined “Is Sherlock ‘complete’? 7th Circuit will consider when literary characters are free from copyright.”

Victor Li has the cover story headlined “Who owns the law? Technology reignites the war over just how public documents should be.”

Lorelei Laird also has an article headlined “California’s ban on standard-caged birds poses a chicken-egg problem.”

And the new installment of Bryan A. Garner’s “On Words” column is headlined “A Tale of 2 Associates: How polish and attention to detail can win the motion.”

“We Need a Strong Prison System: But we need to imprison people for fewer crimes and for less time.” In the June 9, 2014 issue of The New Republic, Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner has this review of Robert A. Ferguson‘s book, “Inferno: An Anatomy of American Punishment.”

“Support for same-sex marriage reaches a ‘tipping point’; Polls now show unwavering majority support for same-sex marriage in the United States as federal judges rule against state bans on such unions, a trend particularly popular among younger Americans”: Brad Knickerbocker of The Christian Science Monitor has this report.

“U.S. Supreme Court: Michigan can’t sue Bay Mills tribe in casino case.” The Detroit Free Press has this news update.

MLive.com reports that “US Supreme Court rules in favor of tribal immunity in Bay Mills casino case.”

And at the “Turtle Talk” blog, Matthew L.M. Fletcher has a post titled “Bay Mills Opinion First Impressions — Dodging the Biggest Bullet Since Worcester.”

“Supreme Court says Secret Service agents are immune in Bush protest lawsuit”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this news update.

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has a news update headlined “Supreme Court rejects free-speech suit from anti-Bush protesters.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today has an article headlined “Ten years after, Bush protesters lose free speech case.”

The Statesman Journal of Salem, Oregon has a news update headlined “Supreme Court rules against Oregon protestor.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Secret Service Agents Get Legal Shield From Supreme Court.”

At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Tony Mauro has a post titled “Secret Service Agents Awarded Immunity in Bush Protest Case.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Opinion analysis: Too close to the president for comfort.”

“Opinion analysis: More power to stop high-speed chases.” Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Court Rules Against Florida I.Q. Rule in Death Cases”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this news update.

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has a news update headlined “Supreme Court strikes Florida law on intellectually disabled death row inmates.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has a news update headlined “High court limits death penalty in cases of intellectual disability.”

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has a news update headlined “High Court Rejects Florida’s IQ Standard for Death Penalty; Justices Rule IQ Score of 70 Is Too Rigid as Cutoff for Execution.” You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “High court bars rigid IQ cutoff for executions.”

Michael Doyle of McClatchy Washington Bureau reports that “Supreme Court strikes down Florida’s strict IQ cutoff for death penalty eligibility.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “High Court Strengthens Ban on Executing Mentally Disabled.”

At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Tony Mauro has a post titled “Justices, Divided, Rule For Death-Row Inmates With Low IQ.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Opinion analysis: A new limit on the death penalty.”

“After a scandal at America’s patent court, it’s time for reform”: Timothy B. Lee has this post today at Vox.

“Prenda Law, as Judge Otis Wright II put it in a case similar to this, was a ‘porno-trolling collective.'” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today issued its ruling in AF Holdings, LLC v. Does.

My earlier coverage of the appeal’s oral argument can be accessed here.

Update: Bloomberg News reports that “Porn Copyright Holder’s Bid for Internet IDs Tossed by Court.”

And at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Zoe Tillman has a post titled “D.C. Circuit Finds Abuses by ‘Porno-Trolling Collective.’”

“Court sides with EPA for not setting new standard”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A federal appeals court has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency was justified in not establishing a new air quality standard for acid rain.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

Access online today’s rulings in argued cases of the U.S. Supreme Court: The Court today issued rulings in four argued cases.

1. Justice Elena Kagan delivered the opinion of the Court in Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community, No. 12-515. Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a concurring opinion. Justice Antonin Scalia issued a dissenting opinion. Justice Clarence Thomas issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Samuel A. Alito, Jr. joined. And Justice Ginsburg also issued a dissenting opinion. You can access the oral argument via this link.

2. Justice Alito delivered the opinion of the Court in Plumhoff v. Rickard, No. 12-1117. There were no separate opinions, but Justices Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer did not join the opinion of the Court in full. You can access the oral argument via this link.

3. Justice Ginsburg delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court in Wood v. Moss, No. 13-115. You can access the oral argument via this link.

4. And Justice Anthony M. Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court in Hall v. Florida, No. 12-10882. Justice Alito issued a dissenting opinion, in which the Chief Justice and Justices Scalia and Thomas joined. You can access the oral argument via this link.

In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that “Justices rule for death row inmates with low IQ“; “Court blocks protester case against Secret Service“; “Supreme Court says Mich. can’t block Indian casino“; and “High court sides with police over fatal chase.”

And Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. top court rules for Florida death row inmate over IQ test” and “U.S. court rules for Secret Service agents in protest case.”

Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: The Court has posted the Order List at this link. The Court granted review in one case and called for the views of the Solicitor General in two cases.

Additionally, the Court issued a unanimous per curiam summary reversal of the Supreme Court of Illinois in Martinez v. Illinois, No. 13-5967.

In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that “Court to hear dispute over state tax collection” and “Justices won’t make reporter to testify on sources.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Stating the obvious, after a while.”

“Will The Supreme Court Kill Public-Employee Unions? The massive stakes in the court case Harris v. Quinn.” Andy Kroll has this essay online at Mother Jones.

“What Did the Framers Really Mean?” In today’s edition of The New York Times, columnist Joe Nocera has an op-ed that begins, “Three days after the publication of Michael Waldman’s new book, ‘The Second Amendment: A Biography,’ Elliot Rodger, 22, went on a killing spree, stabbing three people and then shooting another eight, killing four of them, including himself.”

“Christie’s Lawyer Problem: Conservatives say he hasn’t fought hard enough against liberal judges.” Eliana Johnson has this article today at National Review Online.

“William and Mary Law School Commencement Address: Justice Antonin Scalia gave the commencement address to the 2014 graduating class of the Mashall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary.” C-SPAN has posted the video at this link.

“From a diverse group of judges, a unanimous opinion on same-sex marriage”: Robert Barnes has this front page article today in The Washington Post.